Bloomington’s only castle, Ewing Manor, will host its fifth annual architecture tour on Saturday, April 1.
Ewing Manor architecture tours, April 1, 2023

Bloomington’s only castle, Ewing Manor, will host its fifth annual architecture tour on Saturday, April 1.
Ewing Manor and the David Davis Mansion will once again be part of the popular Christmas at the Mansions tour on Saturday, December 10.
When Redbird Gale (Marr) Myers ’77 returned from a trip to Japan to find that her husband had purchased 10 Japanese maple trees, she had no idea that number would increase to 4,000.
Historic Ewing Manor will be open for public tours from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays, May through September.
Experience Ewing Manor’s rich history by participating in an architectural tour on Saturday, April 2.
A community tour of the historic Ewing Manor will be from 5-7 p.m. December 16. No reservations are needed.
Ewing Manor and the David Davis Mansion will once again be part of the popular Christmas at the Mansions tour on Saturday, December 11.
The historic Ewing Manor will be open for public tours from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays June through October. The last tour will start at 5:15 p.m. with the exception of Labor Day.
The Bloomington-Normal area was home to a champion of efforts to ratify the 19th amendment in Hazle Buck Ewing. Toni Tucker, director of the Ewing Cultural Center, discusses Ewing’s involvement in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
LeErin Humbracht lost hours of sleep obsessing over centerpieces for her June 6 wedding, which she’d been planning over a year. More than 200 guests were expected from as far as the East Coast–and then a global pandemic hit.